Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.